Collar-button.



T. NAST.

COLLAR BUTTON APPLICATION FILED AUG-7.1917.

pnirn a THOMAS NAST, 0F IICAMARONECK, NEW YORK.

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Application filed August 7, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS NAST, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 293 Chatsworth avenue, in the town of Mamaroneck, county of lVestchester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Collar-Buttons, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters in the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to an improvement in collar buttons and has for its object, to provide a collar button, having a perforated head portion, through which a safety pin, may be inserted. The ordinary collar button, for use at the front of the shirt, has a round or flat head, not intended or adapted for securing or holding, or assisting in securing or holding, the necktie in place.

With a collar button constructed with a recessed and channeled head, as hereinafter described, it is possible to pass a safety pin through the necktie and the collar button head, before the final knot is made, whereby the necktie is held in place and prevented from slipping up or down, the small safety pin being concealed beneath the last fold of the tie, and it will be noted that the device is as well adapted for securing a four-inhand tie, as a bow tie.

Other objects will be obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevational perspective view of the device showing the transversely perforated flanged head.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view, showing the base and the elliptical-shaped head and guide recess.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the base and part of the stem in section, the head and upper portion of the stem, being removed.

Fig. 4 is a side elevational View of the device with a modification of the head portion. Fig. 5 is a side plan View of the head and upper half of the stem of the modification of the device.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the circular base portion; the numeral 2 in- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1913.

Serial No; 184,966.

dicates the stem portion; the numeral 3 indicates the head portion of the device.

The button is preferably made with the base portion substantially fiat, having the edge 9, rolled over, bead-fashion, in the customary Way, the stem portion 2 being preferably compressed somewhat along its length, describing an ellipse in cross section, as shown at 10, Fig. 3, with the head recessed and laterally perforated, at 5.

The portion 4 that covers or bridges the recess 5, is somewhat higher than the rest of the head portion, the bed of the recess 5, and the channel 7, forming a smooth unbroken guide, for the point of the safety pin, or the like.

The edge or rim 6, of the head portion 3, is preferably made elliptical in the same manner as the stem portion 10, to render insertion in the button holes of the shirt and collar, easier and also to cause the button to maintain its relative position without twisting, thus bringing the safety pin channel, always in a horizontal position, which best accommodates the use of the safety pin.

In the round formed head, Figs. 4, 5, which is not adaptable for recessing, ready access is provided by having reamed the entrances 8, to the channel, which extends axially through the center, from side to side.

Having thus described my said improvement, I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent under this specification;

1. A collar button having a base portion, a stem portion, a flanged head portion provided with a horizontal perforation, extended at each end, to form a recess or guide.

2. The combination in a collar button, of the base .portion, the elliptical stem portion, the head portion, the head portion provided at its end with recessed means for guiding and channel means for retaining a safety pin or the like.

3. The combination in a collar button, of the base portion, the elliptical stem portion, the head portion, the head portion provided at its end with recessed guides, bridged at the center, to form a channel, for retaining a safety pin or the like.

4. The combination in a collar button, of name to this specification in the presence of the base portion, the elliptical stem portion, two subscribing Witnesses.

the head portion, the head portion provided r With a horizontal channel, reamed at its THOMAS NASE' 5 openings, extending axially through the cen- Witnesses:

ter thereof. ARTHUR F. ENGEL, In testimony whereof I have signed my ALICE F. ENGEL Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patentn, Washington, D. 0. 

